The Languages of Addiction
Published on 29. November 1999
Book
Hardback
336 pages
978-0-333-80032-4 (ISBN)
Description
This text looks at the way people talk about what it means to be unable to say no, using literature as a springboard to a discussion of alcoholism and drug addiction. It goes far beyond - yet brings into conversation with each other - the traditional, single issue texts which discuss alcoholisms, to present a variety of theoretical approaches to, and pedagogical methods of teaching, the problem. The essays both challenge and defend the AA Medical Model and draw from African, American, British, French, and Spanish literatures, exploring the meaning of denial, "addiction", and the psychological experiences of addiction. From this international perspective, the questions raised and the intertextual resonances between such authors as Virginia Woolf, Athol Fugard, Vicente Blasco Ibanez, James Baldwin, and John Berryman enlarge awareness of how we might understand alcoholism and addiction as created in literature.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
index
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 141 mm
Weight
456 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-80032-4 (9780333800324)
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Persons
JANE LILIENFELD is Associate Professor of English at Lincoln University. - JEFFREY OXFORD is Assistant Professor of Spanish at the University of North Texas in Denton.
Content
Introduction - PART I: THEORIES OF ADDICTION - The Alcoholic Writer by Any Other Name; R.Forseth - Aristotle and the Language of Addiction; G.Franzwa - Finagrette, AA, and the Disease Concept of Alcoholism; B.Adams - Self-Regulation Vulnerabilities in Substance Abusers: Treatment Implications; E.Khantzian - PART II: THEORETICAL LITERARY INTERVENTIONS - Unacceptable Solutions or, Dancing with Drugs (Wrong Side Out); L.Driscoll - Female Addiction and Sacrifice as Pretextual Communion; S.Infantino - PART III: TEACHING INTERVENTIONS - A Rhetoric of Classroom Denial: Resisting Resistance to Alcohol Questions while Teaching Louise Edrich's Love Medicine; K.Ratcliffe - Alcoholism in Third World Literature: Buchi Emecheta, Athol Fugard & Anita Desai; N.Bazin - PART IV: ADDICTION AND LITERATURE - Ngaio Marsh and the 'Drug Scene' of Detective Fiction; K.McDorman - Alcoholic Implications: A Catalyst of Valencian Culture; J.Oxford - A Thirst for Reverie: Alcohol, Despair, and Dream Space in Elizabeth Bishop's Poetry; R.Curry - John Berryman's Testimony of Alcoholism Through the Looking Glass of Poetry and the Henry Persona; M.Djos - The Barnes Complex: Ernest Hemingway, Djuna Barnes, The Sun Also Rises, and Nightwood; E.Lansky - 'To Want, To Want, and Not to Have': Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse in Context of Contemporary American Addiction Studies; - J. Lilienfeld